47 Quotes About Embodiment

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

What is a great spiritual practitioner? A person who lives always in the presence of his or her own true self, someone who has found and who uses continually the springs and sources of profound inspiration. As the modern English writer Lewis Thompson wrote: 'Christ, supreme poet, lived truth so passionately that every gesture of his, at once pure Act and perfect Symbol, embodies the transcendent.'To embody the transcendent is why we are here.

I seem to myself, as in a dream,An accidental guest in this dreadful body.

Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied activity. Intrinsic to practice is your conscious participation with your life. Engagement is the conduction of your free and open awareness through your activities, whatever they may be.

Enlightenment needs embodiment. Wide-open insight needs deep-rooted instinct. As above, so below.

We cannot step into the same river of our body twice.

The greatest fear, I sometimes think, is that we are trapped: in bodies, in rooms, in time. Or the greatest fear is that we are not - that we can spill wide open. If one is, as Kafka says, dead in one's own lifetime, the heart thuds a traitorous song: alive, alive.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?